>And then, just last week, I realized on my vacation, shooting some videos, that you can't pause the video recording. And I went crazy, like really, in 2022.

First world problems of the finest kind. Not to mention, stop and hit record again doesn't work for you?

IIRC, Apple's Clips app does this: https://www.apple.com/clips/

Just download Snapchat and use that camera.